A Minneapolis Family's Excellent Adventures in Bangalore, India and Beyond...

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Welcome to the Land of the Gently Worded Warning...

This sign, located just outside the business park where Target India is located, is one of many such vivid and creative "public service" sign boards in India. Here, it is not enough to post a speed limit sign, backed up by speeding tickets. The straightforward solution is ultimately the most fallible. A ticket is bribery incentive. But DEATH and dismemberment cannot be cheated...though they are sometimes seen as the ultimate solutions. Despite the signage, traffic problems remain an ongoing headache and a constant source of ire. Ah, well...at least there are entertaining things to read whilst we travel along.

Hmmm. Come to think of it...my first thought on reading this sign was, "We have traffice police?!?"

Even better, the sign attached to the car in front of me the other day read...

"You're moving *where* ?"

Generally, people fall into two camps when it comes to a move across continents. Either they wish they could join you (and subsequently promise to visit) or they think you've lost your mind (and with kids tagging along that is especially true). What ever your thoughts, we invite you to join our family as we journey off to India in search of new career opportunities, travel adventures, the experience of living in a foreign culture and a (hopefully) better understanding of what it means to be a human being on our rapidly shrinking planet.